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  • GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 1790 GRAND TOUR OF LONG ISLAND
    JOANNE S. GRASSO
    The story of the first American president's journey through Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, based on his own diary. After being elected president, George Washington set out to tour the new nation, which was desperate for a unifying symbol. He spent five days on Long Island in April 1790, an area recovering from seven years of devastating British occupation. Washington sa...

    $229.00

  • THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON LONG ISLAND
    JOANNE S GRASSO
    A history of the Revolutionary War and British occupation in this part of New York, from the Culper spy ring to the prison ships where thousands died.   The American Revolution sharply divided families and towns on New York's Long Island. Washington's defeat at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 started seven years of British occupation—and Patriot sympathizers were subje...

    $229.00